. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. r 'j),rr/l'9w.'j,r"\- August 30, 1917. The Florists^ Review 17. The Craig and Pennock Exhibits in the Foregroundt with Rice Under the Balcony. The eastern growers are strong on primulinus. These hybrids afford new colors, which are particularly effective under artificial light, with a grace not possible with the rigid spikes of the older types, with which amenability to forcing is said to be combined. Nearly all the eastern exhibitors showed many pure primulinus hybrids and the influ- ence of the blood was seen in many of the crosses with the
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. r 'j),rr/l'9w.'j,r"\- August 30, 1917. The Florists^ Review 17. The Craig and Pennock Exhibits in the Foregroundt with Rice Under the Balcony. The eastern growers are strong on primulinus. These hybrids afford new colors, which are particularly effective under artificial light, with a grace not possible with the rigid spikes of the older types, with which amenability to forcing is said to be combined. Nearly all the eastern exhibitors showed many pure primulinus hybrids and the influ- ence of the blood was seen in many of the crosses with the gandavensis and Childsii types. The great group of B. Hammond Tracy, Cedar Acres, Wenham, Mass., which occupied the rotunda, was particularly strong in its primulinus varieties. In the large collections, John Lewis Childs^ Floral Park, N. Y., staged 125 varieties; Vaughan'a Seed Store staged forty-five varieties and Thomas Cogger, Melrose, Mass., and E. H. Meader, Dover, N. H., had good displays. The principal groups by non-commercial growers were from P. W. Popp and Madison Cooper. The Awards. The awards in the classes open to all were as follows: Most artistic displaj—B. Hammond Trney, Cedar Acres, Wenham, Mass., first. Best and largest collection, six spikes of each variety—John Lewis Cliilds, Flowerfleld, N. Y., first. Fifteen vases, fifteen varieties, twelve spikes each—John Lewis Childs, first. Twenty-flve vases, twenty-five varieties, three spikes each—C. Zeestreten, Bemus Point, N. Y., first; Thomas Cogger, Melrose, Mass., second. Twenty-flve spikes, artistically arranged— Thomas Cogger, first. ? Twenty-five spikes white, one variety^Cedar Hill Nursery, Glen Head, N. Y., first; C. Zees- ti^eten, second, Twenty-flve spikes red, one variety—C. Zees- treten, first; Thomas Cogger, Twenty-flve spikes crimson, one variety—John I^wls Childs, first. Twenty-flve spikes pink, one variety—Cedar Hill Nursery, flrst; H. E. Meader, Dover, N. H., second. Twent
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